Oak Ridge Wildcats defeat Upper Arlington

Prentice Young collected three hits as the Oak Ridge Wildcats varsity took home a 7-4 victory over Upper Arlington (Ohio) in seven innings at Hopkins Field in Oak Ridge on Friday.

by Narrative Science and GameChanger Media

Prentice Young collected three hits as the Oak Ridge Wildcats varsity took home a 7-4 victory over Upper Arlington (Ohio) in seven innings at Hopkins Field in Oak Ridge on Friday.

Young singled in the first, fifth and sixth innings.

Reid Elwood got the win for the Wildcats. He tossed three innings of shutout ball. Elwood struck out one, walked three and gave up one hit.

Oak Ridge closer Kevin Steen put away the final six outs to record the save.

The top of the second saw Upper Arlington take an early lead, 2-0. Upper Arlington then tacked on more runs when Davis Robeson scored on a sacrifice fly by Vinny Bonta.

The game’s last lead went to the 2013 Oak Ridge Wildcats varsity thanks to a third inning rally that saw two runs cross the plate on two errors.

The Wildcats brought home two runs in the fifth inning, and matched that run total in the sixth. In the fifth, Oak Ridge scored on an RBI single by Matt McDaniel, plating Young.

The Wildcats added two more runs in the bottom of the sixth. A passed ball scored Stephen May to start the scoring in the inning. That was followed up by Young’s single, scoring Landon Williams.

Two runs in the top of the seventh helped Upper Arlington close its deficit to 7-4. An RBI double by Mathis Newman and an RBI single by Haakon Borstad set off Upper Arlington rally. But, Steen got Davis Robeson to to end the game.